WHO warns as deadly plague spreads – 1,300 already infected

Health workers are trying to contain an outbreak of airborne plague in Africa which has infected more than 1,300 people.

Nearby nations have been placed on high alert, and a World Health Organisation said, ‘’The risk of the disease spreading is high at national level… because it is present in several towns and this is just the start of the outbreak.’

The disease is caused by the same microbe which wiped out 50 million people in Europe during the Black Death, but in a form that can be spread by coughing.